Education: Report Card

¶Despite the hallowed U.S. tradition that a state campus should take
in all qualified comers. President George Cross of the University of
Oklahoma sadly announced that he no longer can. Because of lack of room
and faculty, he told the state legislature, he will have to limit next
September's freshman class to 2,500 (previous enrollment: 2,688).

¶In Irving, Texas, a suburb (pop. 25,000) of Dallas, voters ended a
strange school battle by a drastic expedient: they voted to abolish the
Irving school district (by consolidating with Dallas), and thus ousted
the seven-man school board that had 1). fired Superintendent John...